Training For The Olympics Quotes:

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

- Jesse Owens

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Sports, Track, Olympic Games, Olympic Medals

You have to train your mind like you train your body.

- Bruce Jenner

source: "The Brain-Training Secrets Of Olympic Athletes" By Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2014.

topic: Motivational, Athlete, Mind, Olympic Games, Inspiring Athlete

I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest... How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth--and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

- Jack LaLanne

topic: Workout, Thinking, Years, Survival Of The Fittest, Training For The Olympics

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

- Kristi Yamaguchi

topic: Years, Training, Olympics, Training For The Olympics

Training for the Olympics was much easier than balancing my life now! When practice was over, there was time for me. But with four kids and a career, I have no downtime. When I'm not on the road, I finish my workday at 2:30 p.m. Then I pick the kids up from school and they get 100 percent Mommy, not part Mommy and part Mary Lou Retton.

- Mary Lou Retton

topic: School, Kids, Practice, Training For The Olympics

When I was training for the Olympics, I didn't eat the way I should have. I missed out on much-needed protein and opted for every easy carb.

- Summer Sanders

topic: Training, Olympics, Way, Carbs, Training For The Olympics

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

- Lolo Jones

source: "Did Lolo Jones Offer Up Too Much Information?". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 30, 2012.

topic: College, Training, Before Marriage, College Graduates, Training For The Olympics

I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

- Brad Alan Lewis

topic: Holiday, Games, Training, Training For The Olympics

I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

- Vera Wang

topic: Mother, School, Training, Training For The Olympics

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

- Frank Shorter

topic: Sports, Running, School, Law School, Training For The Olympics

In another show of America's force to the world, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Carter responded by boycotting the Olympics. And thus was a fearsome blow struck at little fourteen-year-old American girls who had spent their lives training for the Olympics.

- Ann Coulter

source: Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.162, Crown Forum

topic: Girl, Blow, Years, Training For The Olympics